The Apple Dot Matrix Printer (often shortened to Apple DMP) is a printer manufactured by

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and sold under the Apple Computer, Inc. label in 1982 for the Apple II series,

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, and the

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. It was succeeded by the

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in 1984. The Apple DMP is the last parallel port printer sold under the Apple label; all subsequent Apple printers (

, ImageWriter II, Scribe,

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, etc.) were

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printers.

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AppleSpec on Apple Dot Matrix printer

User Manuals
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